Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > os.rename(overwrite=False) by default will do less harm than the opposite,
Disagreed. > Then I believe that having a small chance of overwriting file just created > at exactly the same moment on a POSIX is a small price to pay for function > that does safety check before rename on a platform that doesn't have such > functionality at all. Disagreed. If you need the functionality, it's *one* additional line of code. Not every trivial function deserves to be in the stdlib. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8828> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
